Ok in lite of the many christian related posts and due to my interest in caligraphy/chanting... I had been wondering but reluctant to post something what texts would you want to see in a tharavadin version of the Book of Hours
a standard arrangement goes something like this from wiki
A Calendar of Church feasts
An excerpt from each of the four gospels
The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The fifteen Psalms of Degrees
The seven Penitential Psalms
A Litany of Saints
An Office for the Dead
The Hours of the Cross
Various other prayers
but what would you put in?
Personally I would put in place of the ones of the list above
A Calendar of Uposatha days general not dated as that would need changed yearly
An excerpt from 4 suttas maybe Dhammacakkha, Anatalakkhana, Adittapariyaya, & a matika of the satipatthana sutta
A discourse to Gotami
Dhammapada
DN 31
Funeral chanting
Mangala sutta
Karaniya Metta sutta
useful quotes
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A Theravadin Book of Hours
by Cittasanto » Wed Feb 08, 2012 12:00 am
This offering maybe right, or wrong, but it is one, the other, both, or neither!
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Upāsaka Cittasanto
Blog - Some Suttas Translated.
"Others will misconstrue reality due to their personal perspectives, doggedly holding onto and not easily discarding them; We shall not misconstrue reality due to our own personal perspectives, nor doggedly holding onto them, but will discard them easily. This effacement shall be done."
With Metta
Upāsaka Cittasanto
Blog - Some Suttas Translated.
"Others will misconstrue reality due to their personal perspectives, doggedly holding onto and not easily discarding them; We shall not misconstrue reality due to our own personal perspectives, nor doggedly holding onto them, but will discard them easily. This effacement shall be done."
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Re: A Theravadin Book of Hours
by Goofaholix » Wed Feb 08, 2012 12:03 am
...and a partridge in a pear tree.
"Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view. When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn't cause suffering." - Ajahn Chah
"Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things. We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it." - Ajahn Chah
"Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things. We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it." - Ajahn Chah
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Re: A Theravadin Book of Hours
by Cittasanto » Wed Feb 08, 2012 12:18 am
Goofaholix wrote:...and a partridge in a pear tree.
This offering maybe right, or wrong, but it is one, the other, both, or neither!
With Metta
Upāsaka Cittasanto
Blog - Some Suttas Translated.
"Others will misconstrue reality due to their personal perspectives, doggedly holding onto and not easily discarding them; We shall not misconstrue reality due to our own personal perspectives, nor doggedly holding onto them, but will discard them easily. This effacement shall be done."
With Metta
Upāsaka Cittasanto
Blog - Some Suttas Translated.
"Others will misconstrue reality due to their personal perspectives, doggedly holding onto and not easily discarding them; We shall not misconstrue reality due to our own personal perspectives, nor doggedly holding onto them, but will discard them easily. This effacement shall be done."
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Re: A Theravadin Book of Hours
by bodom » Wed Feb 08, 2012 12:20 am
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Re: A Theravadin Book of Hours
by Cittasanto » Wed Feb 08, 2012 11:08 am
bodom wrote:How about this:
The Book of Protection
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... ction.html
That would be a more of a Hymnal than a Book of hours.
I did think of that and certainly the Paritta should have a place.
This offering maybe right, or wrong, but it is one, the other, both, or neither!
With Metta
Upāsaka Cittasanto
Blog - Some Suttas Translated.
"Others will misconstrue reality due to their personal perspectives, doggedly holding onto and not easily discarding them; We shall not misconstrue reality due to our own personal perspectives, nor doggedly holding onto them, but will discard them easily. This effacement shall be done."
With Metta
Upāsaka Cittasanto
Blog - Some Suttas Translated.
"Others will misconstrue reality due to their personal perspectives, doggedly holding onto and not easily discarding them; We shall not misconstrue reality due to our own personal perspectives, nor doggedly holding onto them, but will discard them easily. This effacement shall be done."
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